"We name one thing and then another. Thatâ€™s how time enters poetry. Space, on the other hand, comes into being through the attention we pay to each word. The more intense our attention, the more space, and thereâ€™s a lot of space inside words."

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Source : Charles Simic (2013). “The Monster Loves His Labyrinth”, p.40, Copper Canyon Press

Charles Simic

#Hands Quotes #Names Quotes #Space Quotes

“The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.”
“None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.”
“My first wife was a brunette, and Barbi Benton, my major romantic relationship of the early 1970s, was a brunette. But since the end of my marriage, all of my girlfriends have been blonds.”
“...the feeling of mathematical beauty, of the harmony of numbers and of forms, of geometric elegance. It is a genuinely aesthetic feeling, which all mathematicians know”
“The difference between success and failure is work.”
“I hope I may have succeeded in presenting to you, however imperfectly, the currents of thought due to the work of the immortal Darwin which have helped to make anthropology what it is at the present time”
“When you're a hammer (as the saying goes), all your problems look like nails. If you're a meteorite expert pondering the sudden extinction of boatloads of species, you'll want to say an impact did it. If you're an igneous petrologist, volcanoes did it. If you're into spaceborne bioclouds, an interstellar virus did it. If you're a hypernova expert, gamma rays did it.”
“I haven't stopped looking for the good in people. I've just accepted the fact that I'm not always going to find it.”

Source : FaceBook post by Patti LaBelle from Feb 06, 2013

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